Key legal question
Whether continued pretrial detention remained proportionate despite about 38 months of total detention including extradition detention.
Extracted holding
Yes. Taking extradition detention into account, the total detention still remained below the likely sentence in view of the serious and repeated fraud allegations and the appellant's poor record.
Extracted reasoning
All periods that will be credited to the sentence should generally be considered. The probable sentence for professional fraud was high, and the appellant's prior conviction, recidivism, flight, and disregard of expulsion made a severe sentence plausible. The detention was near the admissible limit, so the authorities had to act with particular diligence.